Les MiserablesTest
Name_________________
1. What was Jean Valjean’s crime?
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a) not paying his taxes
b) stealing apples
c) stealing bread
2. Why was he he in prison so long?
a) he tried to escape
b) he attacked a guard
c) he started a food fight
3. How is a convict discriminated against after being released from prison?
a) once a criminal, always a criminal
b) a yellow passport
c) both a and b
4. What is Valjean’s moral dilemma the night he stays with the bishop?
a) should he stay for breakfast?
b) to steal or not to steal?
c) should he punch the priest?
5. What does the bishop do when Jean steals his silver?
a) has Valjean arrested
b) gives him a lecture
c) gives him the candlesticks too
6. What does the bishop tell Valjean to do with the silver spoons and t he candlesticks? a) stick them where the sun doesn’t shine
b) use use them them to become an honest honest man
c) use use them them to light his path
7. How are the candlesticks symbolic?
a) they represent a second chance
b) they represent forgiveness
c) they represent how the priest “bought
d) all of the responses are true
Valjean’s soul and gave it back to God 8. The lesson to be learned learned from the priest is
a) Love covers a multitude of sins
b) Punish all criminals
c) Reward all thieves
9. How does Valjean become Mayor?
a) he is good a politics b) he saves children from a burning building
c) he becomes a beloved librarian first
10. How does Jean’s rescue of LaMont p ose a risk?
a) the wagon is heavy and he could get hurt
b) Lamont could turn around and sue him
c) Javert is watching
11. Why does Fantine leave her child with the Thénardiers?
a) she has no family
b) they are nice people
c) they have a licensed day care
12. How does the author characterize the Thénardiers?
a) they are con-artists
b) they are well-meaning
c) they are poor and unappreciated
13. How do the Thénardiers treat Cosette?
a) like one of their own
b) like an exchange student
c) like a slave
14. When Javert comes to Mayor Madeline’s town to work, what trouble does he stir up?
a) he seeks to punish all crimes
b) he distrusts everyone
c) he denounces the mayor
15. What is Mayor Madeline’s (Valjean’s) inner conflict concerning “the real Valjean” wh o will be sentenced in Arras?
a) to let someone else be imprisoned
b) to keep his promise to Fantine
c) both a and b
16. Why isn’t Valjean arrested at the courthouse?
a) he is found innocent
b) he escapes
c) the judge was in shock
17. What does Valjean ask of Javert when Javert shows up to arrest him?
a) to make his one phone call
b) to pray for Fantine
c) to go get Cosette
18. How does Jean escape? a) he falls off the ship and “drowns”
b) he knocks Javert out
c) through the sewer system
19. How does Jean fulfill a promise promise to Fantine?
a) he rescues Cosette
b) he adopts Cosette
c) he gives Cosette a note from her mother
20. What does Cosette give Jean that he has never had bef ore?
a) love and a family of his own
b) a new job
c) the right to
21. How does LaMont convince the reverend mother to allow Jean and Cosette to stay at the convent? a) he tells her that Cosette’s dream is to go to school with the nuns
b) he tells her Cosette is an orphan
c) he tells her that Valjean is the new gardener and gravedigger
d) both a and c are true
22. What does the reverend mother give Cosette that she has never had before?
a) a new backpack
b) an education
c) a box seat in the confessional
Nine Years Later…
23. Why do Valjean and Cosette decide to leave the convent?
a) LaMont dies
b) reverend Mother dies
c) Cosette urges him to do so
24. What does reverend mother provide Cosette with before she leaves?
a) a new dress
b) an endowment
c) a birth certificate
d) both b and c are correct
25. Why does Marius live with his grandfather instead of his father?
a) his father is dead
b) his grandfather is rich
c) his grandfather is nicer
26. When Marius falls in love, how does he inadvertently change Cosette’s life?
a) she falls in love with him too
b) she has to sneak around to see him
c) her father hates Marius
27. What lies do the Thenardiers tell to gain sympathy and assistance from Valjean and his daughter (Cosette)?
a) they are poor and about to be evicted
b) they are in debt
c) Eponine has cancer
28. How does Eponine manipulate both Cosette and Marius?
a) she stole food from them
b) she defrauded money from them
c) she set them up
29. Who is the spy in the barricade, and w hat is his fate?
a) Javert: executed for being a spy
b) Gavroche: shot for switching sides
c) Jacques: shot for being a coward
30. Who agrees to execute the spy?
a) Marius
b) Jean Valjean
c) Jacques
31. What does Marius’ second letter to Cosette say?
a) today I die
b) you are my only love
c) meet me at the barricades
32. What does Marius threaten to do if the soldiers do not retreat?
a) start the revolution
b) blow up the powder kegs
c) call the whole thing off
33. Marius is in love, but what comes first?
a) the fight against oppression
b) college
c) getting the country out of debt
34. What obstacle does Jean encounter as he carries Marius through the sewers of Paris?
a) Thenardier
b) big rats
c) the door is locked
35. Why does Javert commit suicide?
a) he is left alone
b) he is undone undone by Valjean’s kindness
c) he cannot trust himself
36. Why does Jean pretend to have an injury when Cosette gets married? a) he doesn’t want to see his ex -wife
b) he doesn’t have anything to wear
c) what if someone recognizes him
37. Why is Jean despondent after Cosette’s wedding?
a) he is dying from infection from the sewer
b) he is hurt by Cosette and Marius
c) he is in trouble with Javert
38. What evidence does Thénardier produce to prove that he is telling Marius the truth?
a) he was an eye witness
b) he has a sworn confession
c) he has a piece of the “dead man’s” coat
39. What does Marius discover as a result of Thénardier’s blackmail blackmail attempt?
a) that Valjean saved him
b) that Thenardier Thenardier is Cosette’s real father
c) that Valjean is a murderer
40. What final requests does Jean make before he dies?
a) love one another
b) sell the candlesticks
c) tell the truth
41. How does Valjean feel about death?
a) it is too soon
b) that it is about time
c) to die is nothing; the terrible thing is never to have lived
Are these true or false? a=true , b= false, c= (Wasn’t mentioned) 42. When Valjean read Marius’s letter to Cosette he felt happ y at first but then he decided to help the young man. 43. At the barricades, it was decided that married men should leave. 44. When the soldiers started shooting the rebels at the barricades, Javert was tied to the post as a spy. 45. Valjean pretended to want to kill Inspector Valjean in order to save him. 46. Javert was happy that Valjean did not kill him. 47. When Marius and Enjolras were fighting off the soldiers, Marius was shot. 48. Marius was rescued from the battlefield by his friend Jacques. Vocabulary: Choose the best vocabulary vocabulary word to complete complete each sentence below. a. accosted
b. adversity
c. arbitrary
d. endear
e. endowment
ab. denounce
ac. incarcerated
ad. pardon(s)
ae. philanthropist philanthropist
bc. ward
49. After retiring in 1901 at at the age of 66 as the world's richest richest man, Andrew Carnegie wanted to to become a ___________________, ___________________, a person who gives money to good causes. 50. Remember, ___________________ will enter into everyone’s life at inopportune times. Many people believe your misery will become your ministry. 51. A Post-Office review found that since 1987, more than 300 people have received __________________ ___________________ _ from Wisconsin's governor for crimes ranging from stealing chickens to homicides. 52. Slicing state aid to small towns just because of their size is ___________________ and unfair, legislators said yesterday. 53. One Marble Falls man says people people should not be so quick to judge an __________________ thirteen year old, arrested for shooting his friend. 54. A PATIENT has uncovered uncovered a secret document exposing filthy filthy conditions in the the _________________ where she caught MRSA. 55. Charming as he is with reporters and guards, Mokbel didn't__________________ didn't______________________ ____ himself to the court on his previous appearance. 56. In his budget repair bill, bill, the senator proposed taking taking an additional $15 million million a year from a special ________________________ _________________________that _that was intended in large part to help smokers quit the habit. Instead, he wants to use almost all of the money for the maintaining Medicaid health programs for the poor.
57. He added: "We urge all communities in Kosovo to remain calm and we call on the Serbian government government to ________________________ ________________________ these acts of violence and take affirmative steps to reduce tensions." 58. A woman cleaning a church inside inside Square One Shopping Centre was ___________________ yesterday by two would-be robbers. 59.
ACT/MME
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Graphic Organizer
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a. restate thesis b. thesis (your position) e. bridging information ab. salute and smash ae. reflection / call to action bc.elaborate abc. concrete detail/ or cited evidence
c. hook/attention getter ac. topic sentence bd. introduce concrete detail bcd. concluding sentence
d. explain ad. summarize main points be. format same as body 1
One Paragraph Essays 1. (3 points) Javert is primarily a symbol of law law and order. Contrast his character with the character Jean Valjean. You may make a graphic organizer instead of writing a paragraph if you wish.
2. (3 points) Discuss the the title of the novel, and show how Hugo has created characters to support his definition of misery. Comment on the characters he creates to represent various human conditions of misery.
3. (3 points) Thénardier is a character the author uses to represent the evils of society. At the end of the novel, he attempts to blackmail Marius. How does the author resolve the situation? Explain whether or not this is a fitting end.
4. (4 points) One of the most psychologically complex characters is Javert, who — — though he plays the role of a villain — acts acts not out of malice but out o ut of a sense of o f duty to what he truly believes is ethically correct. How would you define Javert's value system? Explain his inner conflict and how it led to his suicide.
give evidence evidence from the audio to support support your your answer. Longer Essay: Meaning of Life Life (15 points) Be sure to give Minimum of of 1 page, one one side, double double spaced. spaced.
Valjean's great discovery, the one that transforms him, is that the meaning of life is …
